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Costiera Amalfitana / Amalfi Coast /
I managed to photograph this cute lizard running along a wall in Italy. I've now checked on Wikipedia, and it appears it's actually the Italian wall lizard. I wish all wildlife identification could be that easy!
These guys are usually very skittish, so I was really happy to find one that was not only facing me, but would let me get closer. (The 135mm lens helped.)
In order to make sure I got the shot, I started from a ways back, and kept shooting as I crept forward a little bit at a time.
Elfin Forest
Los Osos, CA
Vivitar 135mm f/2.8 macro, handheld
Close up. I like the glint in his eye. Makes you think that he knows something we don't. Like maybe there's a huge drawback to being warm blooded that we've not yet discovered.
Strange to see a Dragon Lizard as road kill in the middle of winter, poor thing was probably trying to thaw itself out when some Toorak Tracor (4WD) squashed it.
Originally I was told by a volunteer this was a Checkered Whiptail, but I'm not sure. In fairness to the volunteer, they were viewing the pic on the camera at the time and not printed or posted online.
I shooed her away and put him safely away from the cats, this one was about 4 inches and they get quite large, up to a foot I have heard
What is a macro shot?
Is it a picture taken with a macro lens, projecting a 1:1 size image on a film?
Or must it just present a bigger-than-life reality, and enlarge it in such a way that you discover details and a beauty not to be seen with the naked eye?
If you adhere to the former definition, this is no macro shot: it’s a detail of this picture.
I strongly doubt, however, if that formalistic approach still holds in the age of digital photography: there used to be macro shots before “macro lenses” even existed, and there will be without them.